I think it's an improved V911

I have a yellow "WL-Toys V911" on order from Firecabbage that should arrive any day. He clearly lists it as a "WL-Toys V911"

Can anyone (the guys who are in communication with WL-Toys) confirm for sure if this is an "new version from WL-Toys", or a clone of WL-Toys.

When the Firecabbage dude convinced me to try the yellow one out, he didn't mention that the parts were not interchangeable...
Now I see he lists "New V911" parts. Are these WL-Toys, or a clone?

Either way, I'm not happy that the parts will not be interchangeable with my existing fleet of four real V911.

Rickster - I DON'T think you have much to be concerned about. The rotor assembly (all parts from the flybar to the motor) seem to be the same.
Not sure about the improved non-spindly landing gear, but its more robust and I'm happy with THAT. The battery connection and main motor connection are now socketed. There's a shutdown protection when the tail rotor gets stuck.
Obviously a different motherboard (but may be swappable)
Weirdly - in some crashes it ejects the battery, but that's probably not intentional.
I'll leave it up to others to do a more critical comparison - but for me - to quote a cereal killer - THEY'RE GREAT!!!

Rickster - I DON'T think you have much to be concerned about. The rotor assembly (all parts from the flybar to the motor) seem to be the same.
Not sure about the improved non-spindly landing gear, but its more robust and I'm happy with THAT. The battery connection and main motor connection are now socketed. There's a shutdown protection when the tail rotor gets stuck.
Obviously a different motherboard (but may be swappable)
Weirdly - in some crashes it ejects the battery, but that's probably not intentional.
I'll leave it up to others to do a more critical comparison - but for me - to quote a cereal killer - THEY'RE GREAT!!!

Oh - and the old canopy fits on the "new V911" - so it doesn't HAVE to be Yellow. But - you might like that Coldplay song anyway....

better than V911??

Mr.Brosol posted a link to Benma in the Beetle/quadcopter thread ... and me after clicking it, I started browsing around there a bit, and here is what I found ... (no idea if there is already a specific thread for it, but mażbe its still kinda unknown)

... and judging by the pictures that could be a HECK of an interesting addition to the micro FP market ...

Just thought about this - before lift off, applying alierons and elevators will cause the main shaft to move up or down. Other than the main shaft + main gear, the swashplate and the entire main rotor assembly also moves up and down.

When the either/both of the servo arms moves down, the biggest problem is the main gear may not mesh with the motor gear and head speed will drop to 0. This can be quite a disaster but it had not occurred during my flights. (Thanks RicksterRC for the reminder)

But a smaller problem is when the entire main shaft moves down, the tilt of the swashplate is reduced. This has the same effect as reducing the servo throw for forward and aileron left. Servo throw for backward and aileron right are not affected as the the servo arms pushes the main shaft up, which pushes the main gear up gets blocked by the body.